Defoe

Defoe can refer to:

People:

  • Annette DeFoe (1890-1960), American silent film actress
  • Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 to 1661-1731), English trader, writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for writing Robinson Crusoe
  • Gideon Defoe (born 1975), author of Pirates!
  • Jermain Defoe (born 1982), English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur

Other uses:

  • Defoe Shipbuilding Company, a former shipyard in Bay City, Michigan
  • Defoe, Webster County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Operation Defoe, a Second World War reconnaissance by the British Special Air Service
  • Defoe (comics), a zombie story

Famous quotes containing the word defoe:

    We loved the doctrine for the teacher’s sake.
    —Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)

    And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
    Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.
    —Daniel Defoe (1659–1731)